Stochastic Herding in Financial Markets Evidence from Institutional Investor Equity Portfolios

Makoto Nirei, Theodoros Stamatiou and Vladyslav Sushko

No 371, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: TWe estimate a structural model of herding behavior in which feedback arises due to mutual concerns of traders over the unobservable "true" level of market liquidity. In a herding regime, random shocks are exacerbated by endogenous feedback, producing a dampened power-law in the fluctuation of largest sales. The key to the fluctuation is that each trader responds not only to private information, but also to the aggregate behavior of others. Applying the model to the data on portfolios of institutional investors (fund managers), we find that the empirical distribution is consistent with model predictions. A stock's realized illiquidity propagates herding and raises the probability of observing a sell-off. The distribution function itself has desirable properties for evaluating "tail risk".

Keywords: Stochastic Behavior; Herding; Interacting Agents; Fat Tails (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2012-02
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